Quotes About Culture Conflict

#1. As the character talks and moves, the world around him is slowly revealed, just like dollying a camera back for a wider look at things. So all my stories start with a character, and that character introduces setting, culture, conflict, government, economy ... all of it, through his or her eyes.

Robin Hobb

#2. Scale of one to ten
How would you rate your demise?
Thanks for your input

Rick Riordan

#3. The first heart you win over is that casting director. In first meetings, they'll be the ones who see your pitch for the character. And then as you get further up, they'll be the ones reading with you in front of the network.

Michael Mosley

#4. Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of conflict, small events are more likely to inflame passions.

Geoff Mulgan

#5. People from context cultures tend to view personal bonds and informal agreements as far more binding than any formal contract. People from content cultures don't believe the deal is finalized until everyone has signed on the dotted line. And therein lies the potential for conflict.

Carol Kinsey Goman

#6. Truth is it's own witness.

J. Richard Clarke

#7. Every conflict is emblematic of the throwaway culture.

Pope Francis

#8. I recently bought extreme chunky peanut butter. I opened it up..it was just peanuts. Wow that is extreme!

Jim Gaffigan

#9. This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.

Euripides

#10. < ... > tyranny is a central theme of American history, that racial exploitation and racial conflict have been part of the DNA of American culture.

David Brion Davis

#11. This film isn't about "white racism", or racism at all. DEAR WHITE PEOPLE is about identity. It's about the difference between how the mass culture responds to a person because of their race and who they understand themselves to truly be. And this societal conflict appears to be one that many share.

Justin Simien

#12. The most transformative experiences people have - bliss, devotion, self transcendence - are currently anchored to the worst parts of culture and to ways of thinking that merely amplify superstition, self-deception, and conflict.

Sam Harris

#13. Teracia was a tatted former client in her forties that had met the love of her life thanks to Gerri. She was Gerri's first attempt at matchmaking.

Milly Taiden

#14. On the one hand, I'm this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that's where our culture is most in transition and where there's likely to be conflict.

Chris Bohjalian

#15. In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.

Cynthia Breazeal

#16. I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.

Herbie Hancock

#17. American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict ... We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the idea of perpetual warfare

Muriel Rukeyser

#18. The only conflict that is possible in Soviet culture is the conflict between good and best.

Andrei Zhdanov

#19. I feel like a racehorse crashing out of the gates, bent on gulping every moment the world has in front of me right now.
Life is good.

Neil M. Hanson

#20. His love is like Drano, working to unclog all that prevents it from flowing freely in and through us!
EL

Evinda Lepins

#21. Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.

Sigmund Freud

#22. Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster.

Geert Hofstede

#23. If we are going to live with our deepest differences then we must learn about one another.

Deborah J. Levine

#24. The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is deeply rooted in human nature.

Paul Johnson

#25. The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.

Colley Cibber

#26. I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.

Adam Carolla

#27. Packed with detailsplendidly depicts passion, brutality, and cultures in conflict.

Dorothy Garlock

#28. In the modern conflict between the Smile and the Laugh, I am all in favor of laughing. The recent stage of culture and criticism might very well be summed up as the men who smile criticizing the men who laugh.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#29. It is neither a culture of confrontation nor a culture of conflict which builds harmony within and between peoples, but rather a culture of encounter and a culture of dialogue; this is the only way to peace.

Pope Francis

#30. I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime.

Kathleen Hanna

#31. In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.

Chen-Ning Yang

#32. In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.

Samuel P. Huntington